Dec
21
2007
The Australian consultancy Gaming Associates has been retained in order to investigate an alleged $7 million scandal, and as a result even more questions about certain poker rooms have been raised. Gaming Associates was brought in during the month of November to investigate what was called a security breach that allowed a poker room employee to get an access to private information that led to his winning a major poker tournament. The issue that many are taking with the investigation is concerning the fact that the poker room itself is funding the investigation, and there are no third party eyes on the ground.Related Articles:Poker editor fired for cheatingPoker cheater busted marking cards…
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Dec
21
2007
Online poker room Party Poker recently moved the main weekly satellite for qualifying for the Party Poker Irish Poker Championship. In light of the upcoming Christmas Holiday, the main $240 weekly satellite was moved from Tuesday to Sunday. This means that the last chance to qualify for the event is going to be on December 23rd…
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Dec
21
2007
The online poker and gambling company PartyGaming is seeking to make things right with the US authorities, and as a result may be facing monetary and other penalties for accepting bets online. The threat of prosecution makes banks anxious about lending money to the company, as that money may end up getting tied up with the US courts, or disappearing. The company, once the largest of online poker companies, is now facing difficulties in making acquisitions without the power of banks behind it…
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Dec
21
2007
Sometimes things just don’t seem to make a lick of sense. Anybody who has ever found themselves watching Flavor Flav’s “The Flavor of Love” and discovered that they are oddly unable to look away from this train wreck, will know what we mean. Most things that don’t make sense seem to happen in Hollywood, but occasionally incomprehensible things happen in Australia.
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Dec
21
2007
The Gap is more than a place to get boring clothes or a really good band from the seventies. The gap is that awkward position you are in at the poker table when somebody in the early position has bet, and there are still people behind you who don’t have to act until you have made a commitment one way or the other.
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Dec
21
2007
It’s always good to get other players on tilt. When someone is on tilt, they really lose control of their actions, often acting foolishly and wildly. If they were boxing, they’d be flailing about like two elementary schoolers meeting at the bike racks. Players on tilt are a sad sight to see, until you start taking their money hand over fist.
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Dec
21
2007
It was a Dane and a Finn playing at the French event, the last two of many European poker players who took a shot at the Grand Prix de Paris, part of the World Poker Tour’s Season Six.
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Dec
21
2007
The world of online poker has a lot of attractive qualities, and one of the biggest is the opportunity for a poker player to participate in a World Series of Poker style poker series from the comfort of their own home. The latest such series is the one posted by Titan Poker, the European Championship of Online Poker.
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